Difference between revisions of "Crime Victim Assistance Program (4:III)"

"Witness" is a person who, although not necessarily related to a victim, has a strong emotional attachment to the victim and who:

**a prescribed offence that causes a life-threatening injury to, or the death of, the victim; or

**the immediate aftermath of a prescribed offence that causes the death of the victim, in circumstances that are sufficient to alarm, shock, and frighten a reasonable person with that emotional attachment to the victim, and

**is diagnosed by a registered psychologist or a medical or nurse practitioner as a recognized psychological or psychiatric condition; and

**in the opinion of the person who makes the diagnosis, is the result of the circumstances in subparagraph 1.